he was treated here at the royal marsden hospital in london as part of a pivotal trial involving nearlypitals in the uk, ireland and canada. all the men had medium risk prostate cancer which had not spread. after five years, 96% of the men who'd had five high doses of multiple beam radiotherapy were cancer—free, compared to 95% who'd had at least 20 doses of standard radiotherapy. both groups had low side effects. the pink area is the prostate gland... the medical director of the royal marsden led the international trial. for him, this is a big moment. when i got the results i was literally, i was blown away. it was probably one of the best days of my career. i think it's fantastic news for patients and it's brilliant news for the nhs. so what are the implications? well, it's going to be an enormous change. i expect though the nhs will rapidly adopt this, so instead of giving 20 doses of radiotherapy we can give five. if we extrapolate that across the whole nhs that's hundreds of thousands of doses of radiotherapy that are going to be saved. and in a system which, you know, is quite und

the study was led by the royal marsden hospital in london which said the treatment could help 8,000 menrvice. here's our medical editor fergus walsh. there was no pain or inconvenience. the treatment was just so easy and swift. there was no downside to it. alastair kennedy—rose feels extremely fortunate to have had his prostate cancer treated in just five sessions of radiotherapy. eight years on, the 64—year—old is still cancer—free. it was almost as though i'd never had prostate cancer because i didn't have any symptoms to start with and the treatment was so easy, ultimately so very effective. he was treated here at the royal marsden hospital in london as part of a pivotal trial involving nearly 900 men at 38 hospitals in the uk, ireland and canada. all the men had medium risk prostate cancer which had not spread. after five years, 96% of the men who'd had five high doses of multiple beam radiotherapy were cancer—free, compared to 95% who'd had at least 20 doses of standard radiotherapy. both groups had low side effects. the pink area is the prostate gland... the medical director of th

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or the new cancer drug triad at the royal marsden hospital.rowth of tumours and even shrink them in many cases, with far less debilitating side—effects than chemotherapy. just think what a difference breakthroughs like these could make. think how much time they could save, how much misery they could prevent, how much misery they could prevent, how many lives they could save. and it is the job of government to back research like this so scientists and doctors can make the next breakthrough, and the one after that, and the one after that. it is the job of government to make sure that whenever those breakthroughs happen, the nhs rules after the benefits to patients as quickly as possible. —— rolls out any benefits. if someone's life can be saved, no unnecessary delay should stand in the way ended his job of government to make sure that we are diagnosing cancer as early as possible, that peterso starting treatment as early as possible and that every patient gets the ongoing care and support they need. applause friends, none of this actually should

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